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Chinese New Year begins with a family dinner, and explodes with red banners and lion-dragon dances in the streets of Chinatown.
An article explodes the fallacy of safe sex.
But like any idea, it gets simplistic when carried too far, and late in Boogie Nights it explodes into cheap melodrama.
The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.
Wang's famous painting of the Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains (1366) explodes the myth of the artist's peaceful retreat in the hills.